Frankenstein malware stitched together from code of others disguised as PyPI package

Crime-as-a-service vendors mix and match components as needed by client

A malicious package discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) is the latest example of what threat hunters from Kroll called the continued "democratization of cybercrime," with the bad guys creating malware variants from the code of others.…

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